pursuits: accordingly the pleasures belonging to the love of honour are shared, and may be appreciated, by the philosopher; while the lover of honour as such, has no sense for the pleasures of philosophy. In the range of personal experience, therefore, the philosopher surpasses the other two: he surpasses them no less in exercised intelligence, and in rational discourse, which is his own principal instrument.[293] If wealth and profit furnished the proper means of judgment, the money-lover would have been the best judge of the three: if honour and victory furnished the proper means, we should consult the lover of honour: but experience, intelligence, and rational discourse, have been shown to be the means--and therefore it is plain that the philosopher is a better authority than either of the other two. His verdict must be considered as final. He will assuredly tell us, that the pleasures belonging to the love of knowledge are the greatest: those belonging to the love of honour and power, the next: those belonging to the love of money and to appetite, the least.[294] [Footnote 290: Plato, Republic, ix. p. 581.] [Footnote 291: Plato, Republic, ix. p. 582 A. [Greek: e)mpeiri/a| te kai\ phronê/sei kai\ lo/gô|.]] [Footnote 292: Plato, Republic, ix. p. 582 B.] [Footnote 293: Plato, Republic, ix. p. 582 C-D. [Greek: lo/goi de\ tou/tou ma/lista o)/rganon.]] [Footnote 294: Plato, Republic, ix. pp. 582-583.] [Side-note: They are the only pleasures completely true and pure. Comparison of pleasure and pain with neutrality. Prevalent illusions.]